Microsoft and Portal Software Announce Telecom Billing Alliance

Microsoft and Portal Software announced a strategic alliance aimed at transforming legacy telco billing systems for future Web services. More specifically, Microsoft will integrate Portal's billing and subscriber management software platform with its own .NET technologies. This would provide the communications industry with a .NET-connected solution for rolling out and billing new voice, data and content services. The new "BillingAgility" is a billing and subscriber management solution built on Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (64-bit) with the SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition (64-bit). It will use XML and SOAP to enables faster and easier integration with other applications and legacy systems. The companies expect it will scale to support more than 25 million subscribers. Microsoft and Portal continue to work at a strategic level to align their longer-term product road maps.
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